Gold rumor swells in Wickenburg mining district
Arizona's Keystone Field copper holdings near Wickenburg spark interest as A P Gunther tours the Hatlighd Upton property. Old timers recount Negro Ben tales and a deadly Apache-era death, while Col Poston and Tuna figures loom in frontier memory and the territorial anthem is hailed.
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Arizona Repubican
A. P. Gunther
Keystone Field & Copper Company
Wickenburg
Hatlighd-Upton
Eammerly
Porterie
Porterie Faone
A. H. Peoples
Mr. Peeples
Jack Swilling
Mr. Bradshaw
Bradshaw Mountains
Mr. Weaver
Weaver
Turkey
Harqua Hala
Harqua
Peeples
Negro Ben
Rego
Bien
Ben
Apsches
Formal
Wickeoburg
Milestone Birthday for Col. Charles D. Poston
Col. Charles D. Poston, father of Arisoma and the first territorial delegate to Congress, celebrated his seventy sixth birthday today. He remains cheerful and active in public life as the Phoenix Enterprise notes this milestone.
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Col
Poston
Tuna
Second Street
Adams
Monroe
Phoanix Enterprise
Charles D. Poston
Arisoma
Congress
The Editor tribute by a weliod boy
A humorous essay mocks editors and newspapers, claiming editors are mixed in church and whiskers, with playful lines about editors never going to school, lacking pay, and the paper used as pantry shelf fodder. It rails at the editor as a poor man who struggles without subscriptions and proper attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dent
Paw
Pew
Native African printers at Mpala press first geography book
Catholic missionaries in Mpala on Lake Tanganyika have trained native printers who produced a 56 page geography book in their own language. Father G. Van Acker supervised typesetting and printing and designed the map, marking a notable step in Central Africa’s literacy efforts.
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Lake Tanganyika
Mpula
Central Africa
Mpala
Europe
G. van Acker
Corner in Polar Dams
According to Sir Clements Markham, Americans are blamed for forming a pole dog corner that challenges British arctic expeditions. E. B. Baldwin, the American explorer, has bought up a large supply of dogs driving prices from 18 to 30 dollars and making them scarce at that cost.
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Sir Clements Markham
Royal Geographical Society
E. B. Baldwin
The Cocoon Thread Description Explained
The silk worm’s cocoon thread is not wound in a spiral but laid here and there as the worm moves within its self-made house. Many yards of thread may unwind without turning the cocoon over at all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bafalo Harbor
Mississippi
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
Batis Harbor
Mississippi Valley
Vaudeville Theater Firms and the Stage's Deep Pages
The article notes about 70 vaudeville theaters in the United States with 12 in Greater New York and 7 in Chicago, plus 34 in the eastern states, 44 in the Midwest and South, and two on the Pacific coast. It cites a demand for 650 to 700 acts to supply stages and a pool of about 1,500 acts, half of whom struggle to succeed. It discusses fortunes, managers, and the risk inherent in vaudeville, comparing its stability to a department store once established.
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United States
Canada
London
Richard Duffy
Ainslee
Greater
New York
Chicago
Middle West
South
Pacific Coast
Omaha
San Francisco
Installment living in Mexico City shops and life
A correspondent describes the installment plan as a pervasive habit in Mexico City commerce. Great shops hold tens of thousands of accounts continually growing with new charges and shrinking as monthly payments are made. Credit dictates many of the government's employees' habits from cradle to coffin.
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Mexico
Washington
Geological Survey reports work on Nicaragua canal and Tonto Basin prospects
Geologist Davis and party outline current fieldwork in the valley including Me Dowell reservoir tests and bedrock drilling. They describe contour surveys for capacity, funding limits, and federal scrutiny of river feasibility while noting irrigation potential and arid West development through water wheels and pumps.
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R. Davis
U. S. Geological Survey
Davis
Nicaragua Canal
Tme
Mc. Davis
Me. Dowell Reservoir
Arizona
United Star
Tonto Basin
Geological Survey
West
F.H. Newell
Egypt
Far East
Western river and harbor bids stir regional debate
The Lockport publication relays editorial quotes from Denver and Buffalo papers urging fair treatment for the West in federal public works. Editors warn against overfunding irrigation in arid lands while stressing the need for nationwide balance and local control, noting hostility to new river and harbor bills without Western representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Colorado
Middle West
Denver
Col
Times
Senate
Montana
Wyoming
Eso
Buffalo Commercial
Lockport Law
Solorado
Expansion from Within and a Deaf Benefactor’s Gift
A letter discusses a rich donor to the Nicholson Institute in New York and a call for domestic expansion. It cites vast vacant land in the United States suitable for grazing farming and timber, urging irrigation to cultivate unused areas. The piece questions risks of rapid expansion abroad at the expense of national opportunity and tradition.
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Arizona
Nichson
Nicholson Institute
Eighth Aveot
New York
Prom Bryna
Boston Grove
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A fragmented OCR snippet offers few readable facts about events or names. The text lacks clear entities, dates, or locations to anchor a concise newspaper-like card.
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